Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel

Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel PDF Author: Adam Abraham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108493076
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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Views the Victorian novel through the prism of literary imitations that it inspired.

Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel

Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel PDF Author: Adam Abraham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108493076
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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Book Description
Views the Victorian novel through the prism of literary imitations that it inspired.

Original Copy

Original Copy PDF Author: Robert Macfarlane
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191537926
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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'"Originality" is only plagiarizing from a great many', remarked Rupert Brooke, stealing the line from Voltaire. Questions of originality, and accusations of plagiarism, are as old as literature, but different literary cultures have interpreted the relationship between originality and plagiarism in startlingly dissimilar ways. Original Copy investigates and documents the drastic reappraisal of literary originality and plagiarism which occurred over the course of the nineteenth century: from the heroic visions of original authorship that characterised the 1820s and 1830s, through to the stickle-brick creativity of Oscar Wilde and Lionel Johnson at the century's end. It reveals how ideas of originality and plagiarism were not only a theoretical concern of Victorian commentators on literature, but also provided many important Victorian writers - Eliot, Dickens, Reade, Pater, Wilde, and Lionel Johnson among them - with a creative resource. Moving between numerous different fields of thought and knowledge - literary criticism, the history of science, manuscript culture, anthropology - and written in a supple and elegant style, this book shows that the ideas of originality and plagiarism were the subjects of nineteenth-century literature, as well as what it was subject to.

Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel

Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel PDF Author: Timothy Gao
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108837166
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 237

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Virtual, paracosmic, fictional -- Authorship, omnipotence, and Charlotte Bronte -- Plotting, improvisation, and Anthony Trollope -- Continuation, attachment, and William Makepeace Thackeray -- Description, projection, and Charles.

Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction

Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction PDF Author: Matthew Sussman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108967248
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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An innovative approach to literary stylistic analysis that targets students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture through provocative interpretations of style in Victorian novels and succinct revaluations of major figures in rhetoric, criticism, and philosophy.

Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature

Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature PDF Author: Philip Steer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108484425
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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A transnational study of how settler colonialism remade the Victorian novel and political economy by challenging ideas of British identity.

Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature

Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature PDF Author: Richard Fallon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108834000
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Reimagining Dinosaurs argues that transatlantic popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a cultural icon between 1880 and 1920

Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel

Scale, Crisis, and the Modern Novel PDF Author: Aaron Rosenberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 1009271822
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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At the turn of the twentieth century, novelists faced an unprecedented crisis of scale. While exponential increases in industrial production, resource extraction, and technological complexity accelerated daily life, growing concerns about deep time, evolution, globalization, and extinction destabilised scale's value as a measure of reality. Here, Aaron Rosenberg examines how four novelists moved radically beyond novelistic realism, repurposing the genres-romance, melodrama, gothic, and epic-it had ostensibly superseded. He demonstrates how H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf engaged with climatic and ecological crises that persist today, requiring us to navigate multiple temporal and spatial scales simultaneously. The volume shows that problems of scale constrain our responses to crisis by shaping the linguistic, aesthetic, and narrative structures through which we imagine it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel PDF Author: Lauren Gillingham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009296566
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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Book Description
Lauren Gillingham reveals how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel in nineteenth-century Britain.

Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany

Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany PDF Author: Linda Hughes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316512843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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A vivid account of the alternative, emancipatory Germany that progressive British women writers discovered and wrote about, 1833-1910.

Vagrancy in the Victorian Age

Vagrancy in the Victorian Age PDF Author: Alistair Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009022393
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations. They appeared in a variety of forms in a variety of places: Gypsies and hawkers tramped the country, casual paupers and loafers lingered in the city, and vagabonds and beachcombers roved the colonial frontiers. Uncovering the rich Victorian taxonomy of nineteenth-century vagrancy for the first time, this interdisciplinary study examines how assumptions about class, gender, race and environment shaped a series of distinct vagrant types. At the same time it broaches new ground by demonstrating that rural and urban conceptions of vagrancy were repurposed in colonial contexts. Representational strategies circulated globally as well as locally, and were used to articulate shifting fantasies and anxieties about mobility, poverty and homelessness. These are traced through an extensive corpus of canonical, ephemeral and popular texts as well as a variety of visual forms.